2018 IndieWire Critics Poll

The winners of the 2018 IndieWire Critics Poll were announced on December 17, 2018.^[1]

2018 IndieWire Critics Poll
Date	December 17, 2018
Highlights
Best Film	Roma
Most awards	Roma (4)
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Winners and nominees

Best Picture	Best Director
1st: Roma 2nd: First Reformed 3rd: Burning 4th: The Favourite 5th: Cold War 6th: Shoplifters 7th: BlacKkKlansman 8th: Zama 9th: You Were Never Really Here 10th: If Beale Street Could Talk	1st: Alfonso Cuarón – Roma 2nd: Lee Chang-Dong – Burning 3rd: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here 4th: Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite 5th: Paul Schrader – First Reformed
Best Actor	Best Actress
1st: Ethan Hawke – First Reformed 2nd: Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here 3rd: Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate 4th: Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody 5th: Viggo Mortensen – Green Book	1st: Olivia Colman – The Favourite 2nd: Yalitza Aparicio – Roma 3rd: Toni Collette – Hereditary 4th: Joanna Kulig – Cold War 5th: Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
1st: Steven Yeun – Burning 2nd: Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? 3rd: Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 4th: Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman 5th: Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born	1st: Rachel Weisz – The Favourite 2nd: Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk 3rd: Emma Stone – The Favourite 4th: Elizabeth Debicki – Widows 5th: Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
Best Screenplay	Best Cinematography
1st: The Favourite 2nd: First Reformed 3rd: Roma 4th: Can You Ever Forgive Me? 5th: Burning	1st: Roma 2nd: Cold War 3rd: If Beale Street Could Talk 4th: First Man 5th: The Favourite
Best Documentary	Best Debut Feature
1st: Minding the Gap 2nd: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 3rd: Three Identical Strangers 4th: Free Solo 5th: Hale County This Morning, This Evening	1st: Sorry to Bother You 2nd: Eighth Grade 3rd: Hereditary 4th: A Star Is Born 5th: Minding the Gap
Best Foreign Language Film
1st: Roma 2nd: Burning 3rd: Shoplifters 4th: Cold War 5th: Capernaum
Best Undistributed Film	Best Films Opening in 2019
1st: Black Mother 2nd: Donbass 3rd: The Grand Bizarre 4th: American Dharma 5th: La Flor	1st: High Life 2nd: Transit 3rd: Birds of Passage 4th: Her Smell (TIE) 4th: Everybody Knows (TIE) 4th: In Fabric (TIE)